All Building Design articles in 2 May 2008
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ReviewHaptic: Awakening the Senses – until June 7
Displaying a wide array of objects ranging from clocks, cups, clothing and furniture, to silicone door handles and mobile phones, textured shoes and a water pachinko game; Haptic is an exhibition of design products that focus on the sense of touch.
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ReviewCUBElab: Camilla Lyon - until September 6
Blackpool pleasure beach is the inspiration for this new installation at CUBE in Manchester by artist Camilla Lyon. Taking six weeks to evolve in the gallery as part of a residency at CUBElab, the artist has researched industrial, domestic and leisure structures that resonate of a particular era and ...
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NewsSave Bishopsfield estate, say Beigel and Fretton
Architects including Florian Beigel and Tony Fretton have rallied to support a threatened 1960s experimental housing estate designed by Michael Neylan and Bill Ungless.Bishopsfield estate in Harlow could now be demolished after the local council found the cost of bringing it up to the government’s Decent Homes standard would be ...
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NewsRIBA and ACA split over forms of client contract
Architects will be forced to choose between two rival forms of client contract after the collapse of more than two years of negotiation on the issue between the RIBA and the Association of Consultant Architects.In a move destined to create a major schism between the two organisations, ACA president Brian ...
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NewsEnglish Heritage fails to back Robin Hood Gardens
English Heritage commissioners have overruled the advice of the organisation’s own advisory committee over the future of Robin Hood Gardens and recommended it is not listed.
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NewsDavis quits RIBA presidency race citing work pressures
The battle for the RIBA presidency took a dramatic twist this week as Paul Davis pulled out, leaving Ruth Reed and Andrew Hanson in a two horse race.Davis, founder of Paul Davis & Partners and a past president of the Association of Consultant Architects, said his practice’s growing workload had ...
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ReviewThe Neues Museum Berlin: David Chipperfield Architects - until September 6
Housing once some of Europe’s finest collections of Egyptian antiquities, including most notably bust of Nefertiti; is Berlin’s Neues Museum which is now the subject of a major new exhibition this summer at Sir John Soane’s Museum.
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ReviewSaving a Century: 50 Years of the Victorian Society- until May 29
Marking the 50th Anniversary of the Victorian Society, this Photographic exhibition documents their early defeats in failing to preserve the Euston Arch and Coal Exchange and their subsequent victories with the Foreign Office, St Pancras Station and Albert Dock in Liverpool and is curated by Gavin Stamp
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ReviewOutside the Box: images of contemporary Japanese architecture by Edmund Sumner-until July 25
During the last five years, British architectural photographer, Edmund Sumner, has taken over 2,500 images of contemporary architecture in Japan. A selection of these photographs will be exhibited for the first time at Daiwa Foundation Japan House.
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ReviewMay 68 Street Posters from the Paris Rebellion- until June 1
Produced anonymously and plastered on walls and barricades with slogans such as “It is forbidden to forbid” and “Light wages – Heavy Tanks.”; posters produced by students and workers in Paris during the strikes of May 1968 are shown in the UK for the first time in an exhibition at ...
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ReviewBen Johnson’s Liverpool Cityscape 2008 and the World Panorama Series - until November 2
Forming part of the city’s celebrations as European Capital of Culture; a vast painting of the cityscape of Liverpool, commissioned by National Museums Liverpool, will be on display at Walker Art Gallery.
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NewsMoore resigns as Architecture Foundation director
Director of the Architecture Foundation Rowan Moore has resigned, it was announced this morning.The move, which has sparked an immediate search for a new director, comes just two-and-a-half months after the foundation ditched its plans for a Zaha Hadid-designed headquarters building - a move it blamed on the credit crunch.Moore, ...
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BlogsNews Junkie: 03 and 04 May
London’s new head boy moves into City Hall, rotating golden statue of late dictator to be moved out of capital city.
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CompetitionsHoliday let - Andalucia
3 Bed / 6 Person restored traditional country house with private swimming pool, set in the olive groves of Andalucia.
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ReviewDavid Greene: L.A.W.U.N* Project #19 and L.A.W.u.N.* Project #20- until May 24
As a founder member of Archigram, Architect, educator; David Greene has been hugely influential for generations of architects. Accompanied by an AA publication, the exhibition will explore Greene’s interest in how new technologies inform new architectures by demonstrating his increasing disinterest in form and a willful drift towards invisibility. Conceived ...
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Review'DES RES - London's Housing Challenge': Housing and the Public Realm- June 14
Well designed streets and public spaces make dense, populated areas attractive, enjoyable and efficient. What is our approach to the public realm? What effect will it have on where we want to live? How can we create places that improve people's lives and provide safe, clean environments that have their ...
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Review'DES RES - London's Housing Challenge': Planning to Deliver - May 13
Discussing and debating over the key issues concerned with delivery and planning, (regularly seen as the biggest barrier to delivering new homes), is the purpose of this half day conference from the NLA. It is the first of the ‘Des Res’ series of talks and conferences aimed at exploring the ...
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News
Foster's tax status questioned in parliament
Norman Foster’s tax affairs have been raised in Parliament following BD’s exclusive report last week that he has become a Swiss resident.Liberal Democrat peer and treasury spokesman Matthew Oakeshott — who aims to force “tax-dodging” peers out of the House of Lords — questioned the actions of the Foster & ...
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NewsDemolition threat to Harlow's Bishopsfield estate
A 1960s housing estate is threatened with demolition despite its popularity with residents, after a survey by the local council quoted a prohibitive cost for bringing it up to Decent Homes standards.Bishopsfield estate in Harlow, Essex, was designed by Michael Neylan and Bill Ungless following a competition win in 1963, ...
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